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Definition of Syringe
1. Noun. A medical instrument used to inject or withdraw fluids.
Specialized synonyms: Douche, Douche Bag, Hypo, Hypodermic, Hypodermic Syringe
Generic synonyms: Medical Instrument
2. Verb. Spray or irrigate (a body part) with a syringe.
Definition of Syringe
1. n. A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
2. v. t. To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
Definition of Syringe
1. Noun. A device used for injecting or drawing fluids through a membrane. ¹
2. Noun. A device consisting of a hypodermic needle, a chamber for containing liquids, and a piston for applying pressure (to inject) or reducing pressure (to draw); a hypodermic syringe. ¹
3. Verb. To clean or inject fluid by means of a syringe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Syringe
1. to cleanse or treat with injected fluid [v -RINGED, -RINGING, -RINGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syringe
Literary usage of Syringe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1842)
"It has been said that the syringe was invented by Ctesibius, being ilio a-esult
... To this ancient application of the syringe, most of the early writers on ..."
2. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"Pumps with solid pistons: The syringe: Its uses, materials and antiquity—Employed
by tlie Hindoos in religious festivals—Figured on an old ..."
3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"It has been said that the syringe was invented by Ctesibius, being the result
... To this ancient application of the syringe, most of the early writers on ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"A kind of condensing syringe for igniting tinder by the sudden compression of
... They were furnished with handles on each side, and every syringe required ..."
5. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, John William Wallace (1911)
"The mode of using was meant to be the same as in the Davidson syringe. ...
The Davidson syringe on the other hand came into nearly universal use at once. 2. ..."
6. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"It should have the following features :—(A) Ample capacity, so that one syringe
full will fill the entire arterial or venous system of the animal to he ..."
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